TERROR HOTTIES

We just got a bit of news in just a little while back about James Wan’s next movie, The Conjuring, and how it was set to have a terror hottie presence in the form of Vera Farmiga. Well, things are getting even more news-based, and we’ve even got another terror hottie to mention, among other things.

You’re looking at Lili Taylor, who may well be part of The Conjuring to follow, which will follow the Perron family. The Perrons believed that they “lived among the dead” for some time, and now, we’re going to find out just what it’s like to have a whole lot of unauthorized roommates.

Even more interesting than the addition of a new terror hottie, there’s also some news of a possible name change. The movie is now going on under the working title of Untitled Warren Files Project. Whatever the title actually ends up being, this one could be some pretty good stuff, especially if it’s done in that terrific style that Insidious was done in. No word on release dates yet, so keep it right here for all the latest.

If you’re looking forward to the latest Edgar Allen Poe excursion into our theaters known as The Raven, you won’t have much longer to wait. And even better, there’s a new poster out underscoring this one.

Featuring Alice Eve in the main terror hottie slot, The Raven follows Edgar Allen Poe, who’s got a pretty big problem on his hands. Someone’s going around killing people in much the same style that his characters do in his various books and short stories. That would generally put most anyone on ground zero with the local constabulary, except Edgar’s taken a lot of the weight off by working with the cops. Though he may have just moved the weight onto his fiancee, who’s been kidnapped by the killer and about to take her for his next victim. Can Edgar save his bride to be? Or will his stories start getting even more depressing?

The poster is a little heavy on the red, but still looks pretty sweet. And even better, we’ll be able to check out just how the whole thing turns out when this hits theaters April 27th, 2012. I’m personally looking forward to this one myself; a little shot of the literary mixed in with some good old fashioned horror / suspense sounds like a thrill. But hopefully, it will hold out against expectations.

For those of you looking forward to the grand resurgence of big names like Robert De Niro, Cillian Murphy, and of course, terror hottie Sigourney Weaver with Red Lights, we have a treat to announce for you: a fresh clip, and it’s looking pretty sweet at that.

By way of recap, Red Lights joins a pair of paranormal investigators as they descend on what they believe will be their newest colossal fraud, so-called psychic Simon Silver. Silver’s been out of the game for the last thirty years, but he’s putting it all on the line in a big challenge to every debunker and skeptic out there, including our two paranormal investigators. And what Simon Silver’s got to show is going to be some impressive–and dangerous–stuff indeed.

Sound good to anyone else? I’m certainly liking the sound of it–De Niro’s horror career has been sorely underrated (I liked Hide And Seek just fine myself) and bringing in Murphy and Weaver is only an improvement from there. No word as yet on release dates, so keep it right here for all the latest, but this one should be a thrill when it finally makes it into wide release. It just had its premiere out at Sundance, so hopefully distribution isn’t too far behind.

Cassadaga’s been steadily moving forward since we first heard about it some months ago, and even better, a whole new poster has shown up. This time around, they’ve dialed it back a bit, but it’s still got a nice scary profile to it.

Cassadaga follows Lily Morel, who’s having a rough time of things lately. In fact, her sister died recently, and as such, she’s looking for a little solace to get her through. She falls in with Cassadaga, a spiritualist community, but what she doesn’t expect is a vengeful ghost haunting Cassadaga, victim of a serial killer known as Geppetto due to his…unique…style of murder. And that vengeful ghost wants payback…but who will be the victim?

Featuring Louise Fletcher and Amy LoCicero, among others, Cassadaga doesn’t have much in the way of a release date yet, so we’ll be keeping an eye out for it. Still though, this could be a pretty sweet piece of movie, based on the trailer and what we’ve seen of the posters of it so far. You’ll want to keep it right here, though, for all the news that comes out on this one between now and then.

James Wan’s career has really been rolling along nicely since the Saw series first took Halloween by storm, but now, it’s coming back on us with a vengeance by way of the upcoming release of The Conjuring. And of course, it’s nothing without its terror hotties, specifically, Vera Farmiga.

The Conjuring follows the Perron family, an actual, true-life family who were around in the seventies and insisted that they “lived among the dead”. And although that’s about as vague a pronouncement as things get, we’ll get to find out just what it means to “live among the dead” when this one comes out.

They’re still getting the cast together, so they haven’t even started shooting, let alone figured out a release date on this one yet. Hopefully sooner rather than later–I’ve seen Wan do some impressive stuff thus far, and if they pull off what they did with Insidious, well, this one’s certainly going to be one to watch.

Interested in watching a terror hottie get her start as a director? Then you’ll want to check out Black Rock when it makes its appearance, because it will feature exactly that. And even better, she won’t be alone on the terror hottie part of things either.

Featuring Kate Bosworth along side Aselton, Black Rock follows three childhood friends who go off for a weekend of catching up on an island. But the island isn’t as deserted as they thought it was, and that which is waiting for their arrival may not be too interested in letting them leave in one piece.

Word is that the premiere went extremely well, with a variety of distributors in the hunt for it until it landed distribution with LD Entertainment, who in turn reportedly beat out several other possible candidates including Gold Circle, Lions Gate, Magnolia and IFC, all big names in indie in their own right. Current word says this may hit by the end of the year, so keep it right here for all the latest news on this one.

For those of you who were concerned, like me, about the Total Recall remake looking virtually nothing like its predecessor, you’ll have some reason for good cheer thanks to some word from Len Wiseman, who said that some of the original’s “iconic moments” would be back in the remake.

Featuring Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel on the terror hottie front (not to mention one of my personal favorite actors, Bryan Cranston), this time we’re not going to Mars, but rather pitting Euromerica and New Shanghai against each other, and our old boy Douglas Quaid finds himself in the midst of Euromerica wondering if he’s a spy…and for whom. The rest of the film will have him trying to figure out just who he’s really working for, if anyone.

Not too far off from the original, I suppose, though they should have left well enough alone, I’d say. The original was some pretty good stuff, so why not stick to the original formula? While we don’t know just what moments from the original will be coming back, it will be kind of interesting to keep an eye out for them, little Easter eggs for the longtime fans. Keep it here for all the latest on this one, which is set to hit August 3rd.

While The Last Exorcism didn’t exactly make a big splash in the box office, it did sufficiently well to merit a sequel. And the good news is, especially if you liked the last one, the new one will be starting shooting just next month.

The Last Exorcism 2, which will once again feature Ashley Bell as Nell Sweetzer, isn’t exactly giving up a whole lot of information right now about the plot line and such, though chances are that cult will be returning and drawing in sacrificial victims once more.

The current word, though, suggests that this one will wrap shooting later this year, with an expected launch of January 2013. January hasn’t exactly proven tops for the release schedules, though, but I’ve seen some very good pieces indeed come out of January releasing. It’ll be interesting to see where they take the sequel, so keep it here for all the latest on this one.

I’m always in the mood for a little shot of found footage filmmaking, and Thirteen’s going to not only give us just that, but they’re going to splice it in with an unexpected comparison. There are already comparisons between this and Flatliners.

Thirteen, featuring Renee Tab in the terror hottie slot, follows a group of med school students who find themselves experimenting with death, specifically, coming back from it. But what they’ll find on the other side of that line between life and death may well leave them on the wrong side of it, permanently.

Could be good stuff, I’d say, and I’ve always been fond of found footage movies. Sure, this may be a little more like Flatliners than anyone wants it to be–the plotlines sound nearly identical with the critical difference of the found footage part of the plot. I’m looking forward to seeing how it all turns out, though there’s no word as yet on the release date. So keep it right here for all the latest Thirteen news.

Exciting news out there for you guys who were looking forward to The Pact: not only did it get its big premiere out at Sundance, which posted reasonably good word in response, it’s also got a fresh clip for you to check out.

Featuring Agnes Bruckner and Kathleen Rose Perkins among others, The Pact follows a woman who’s returned to her childhood home following the death of her mother. And the return home has not only dredged up some memories she finds less than pleasant, it’s also activated an old presence in the home, one that has anything but the best of intentions for our newly-arrived heroine. But will she be able to survive the trip home and find out just what’s been going on in there all this time? Or will the presence in her home take her down with it?

Exciting proposition, I’d say, and the clip doesn’t look half bad either. It’s not the best thing I’ve seen in some time, but considering how far down the whole thing goes, it’s better than you might think. No word about a release date on this one as yet, but hopefully we’ll have distribution details by the end of Sundance, so keep it right here for the latest.

Big news for you today, folks, as we’ve recently found out that the trailer has emerged for Resident Evil: Retribution. And it’s looking pretty nice indeed.

Resident Evil: Retribution, featuring Li Bingbing, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez and Milla Jovovich, takes us back out to the planet in the midst of a plague of virus-induced horror as what’s left of the Umbrella Corporation is rallying around its most secretive and most protected facility. But Alice, backed up by some good friends she’s met along the way, is still out there, and she still wants to bring Umbrella down. And she’ll be traveling around the world, from Tokyo to Moscow and everywhere in between, in a bid to take out Umbrella once and for all.

The trailer looks pretty sharp indeed, packed with all manner of action, which is pretty much what we’ve come to expect from this series. I’m still a little torqued that the series is devolving into an action movie with occasional zombies and random mutations rather than a much heavier zombie picture with some occasional mutations.

Still though, we’ll get to see how the second to last installment comes out when it hits theaters September 14th, so keep it here for all the latest, and check out the trailer!

Anybody in the mood for some killer calamari? Guess what, folks–that’s what’s on tap with the upcoming release of Grabbers, a movie that will show us the true power of booze.

We go out to a tiny fishing village, along with our terror hottie of choice Ruth Bradley, in Ireland where the villagers are living pretty normal, quiet lives. At least, they were living normal quiet lives until the bizarre sea creature showed up demanding blood. But the villagers are about to fight back, with the best weapon they have at hand.

This one sounds like a lot of fun, and the best part is the monster in question looks pretty cool, even if it does look like a small octopus or the like. It’s making its appearance out at Sundance in just a couple days, so hopefully this one will hit a wide release sooner rather than later. But keep it right here for all the latest.

From the sounds of things, Milla Jovovich is about to be pretty busy, and hopefully plenty of terror hotties will be following along. While we’re about to walk into the fifth installment of the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil: Retribution, there’s already word brewing about a part six, as well as the possibility of a prequel.

Basically, we’re already up to the fifth one, looking to hit later on this year. And considering that the previous four installments did as well as they did, it’s pretty much sure that they’re going to keep this going until the grosses start to fall off. Thus, it’s not a surprise to hear that a sixth one is almost certain to hit.

There’s even a possibility that they might go the prequel route with one of the upcoming titles, likely having something to do with the creation of the T-Virus, or maybe some early information with Umbrella. There are a lot of possibilities, but director Paul W.S. Anderson suggests that the sixth one is set to be the last, no matter how the grosses turn out, unless of course this one doesn’t pan out.

So keep it right here for all the latest ahead of the release of the next to last!

New reports have emerged about the future of the series known as The Walking Dead, and one of the show’s currently missing terror hotties has to be Michonne, the sword-slinging zombie walker who quickly distinguished herself as one of the series’ best fighters. At least, she did in the comics. And now, she’s about to make her way to the show.

We don’t yet know who will be playing her, nor when she’ll actually make the jump from the comic to the smaller screen, but one thing’s for sure, if her role sticks anywhere close to the comic, she’ll be chopping up a whole lot of zombies with her signature blade and doing a whole lot of damage.

And of course, the entrance of Michonne only increases the likelihood that, one day, the Governor will make his appearance, at which point the series could probably end and it would be the most awesome thing television has ever seen. Keep it right here for the latest on this one, because it’s going to be a pretty big deal indeed.

There’s a fresh still out there for 7500, and while we’re not getting a whole lot out of this one, we are getting more than we had, and that’s certainly better than nothing.

With Amy Smart and Scout Taylor-Compton just part of the terror hottie lineup, 7500 takes us up on a plane heading from Los Angeles to Tokyo. A few long time friends are along for the right when the flight finds itself under siege, while still aloft, from a host of hostile, malevolent forces. It’s up to them to survive their flight, and get the flight down in one piece.

This could be some good stuff, like Snakes on a Plane significantly amped up. Of course, it may not end quite that well, but the up shot here is that we won’t be too long in finding out. Turns out this one will hit theaters August 31st, 2012, so we’re only a few months away from getting an eyeful of this one ourselves. Keep it right here for all the latest!